I read this article recently by a holocaust survivor.. His name is Ernie Gross. What he went through was unimaginable evil. There were people there that gave up and the others looked for way to survive. He tried to survive. He said that the only way for him to survive was to unlearn his selfish survival skills.
To do that he had to do acts of generosity and charity, this enabled him to retrain his brain. He said "if you don't forgive, it means your angry. If you forgive, your body can relax and you keep on functioning." He concluded with " Don't lose hope tomorrow can be better, that is why I'm 91 and still here." When he was doing work cleaning train station toilets he would pickup cigarette butts, he needed 7 to get a quarter of a potatoe from his fellow prisoners. Those 7 butts were hard to come by. Those pieces of potatoe and his generosity or kindness are what kept him alive.
I told this story before. How a camp prisoner caught a glimmer of himself in a mirror. He was a scowling mess, he looked like the camp guards and prisoners. He said to himself, I don't want to be like that. So he changed his ways. His countenance began to change. His change gave inspiration to some of his fellow prisoners. And as bad his life was, it made things better. To make change he changed himself. That's were it starts. Don't change the outer, change the inner you, first and foremost. Be that beacon of..... light.
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